Word: queue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy officials in Washington tell us that at many bases the officers and men are too eager for the news to wait for TIME to be read to them. They queue up and read it a page at a time as it comes off the V-Mail printing machines! page" to that size the type would be only a third as big as this-so small that even a Navy man with 20/20 eyesight would have trouble reading it. Consequently we have to cut up proofs of all our columns of type and pictures and maps and paste them together...
...should be made to walk one mile, then stand in a fish queue for an hour. By the end of this time his utility stockings would [droop] from knee to instep in snakelike coils and twists. His corset would have wilted into an uncomfortable, revolting mass of cotton and cardboard. He would find himself supporting the corset, instead of the corset supporting...
...People's War. On London streets dignified Britons forgot their dignity. Sir Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, was standing in a bus queue when he heard the roar, felt the silence...
Unashamedly he ran, threw himself in a doorway. The queue was wiped...
Then General de Gaulle came to Isigny and took a queue away from the butcher shop that had just reopened. He got out of his jeep at the edge of town and walked in, and the crowd followed him, cheering. But again the welcome had in it a note of restraint, as if the people were ready to like this new leader and hoped that he would give them cause to do so. They listened in respectful silence as De Gaulle (eld them that he had come to Isigny be cause Isigny had suffered most in a battle that...